COVID-19 pandemic: A review of the global lockdown and its far-reaching effects

H Onyeaka, CK Anumudu, ZT Al-Sharify… - Science …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
COVID-19, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2),
was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the 11th of March …

Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on the global energy system and the shift progress to renewable energy: Opportunities, challenges, and policy implications

AT Hoang, S Nižetić, AI Olcer, HC Ong, WH Chen… - Energy Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Being declared a global emergency, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken many lives,
threatened livelihoods and businesses around the world. The energy industry, in particular …

Excess deaths associated with covid-19 pandemic in 2020: age and sex disaggregated time series analysis in 29 high income countries

N Islam, VM Shkolnikov, RJ Acosta, I Klimkin, I Kawachi… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To estimate the direct and indirect effects of the covid-19 pandemic on mortality in
2020 in 29 high income countries with reliable and complete age and sex disaggregated …

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admissions in the United States: study examines trends in US hospital admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

JD Birkmeyer, A Barnato, N Birkmeyer, R Bessler… - Health …, 2020 - healthaffairs.org
Hospital admissions in the US fell dramatically with the onset of the coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, little is known about differences in admissions …

Social costs of tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic

RTR Qiu, J Park, SN Li, H Song - Annals of tourism research, 2020 - Elsevier
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is currently spreading across the
world at an alarming rate, resulting in the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Amidst this …

Indirect effects of COVID-19 on the environment

MA Zambrano-Monserrate, MA Ruano… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
This research aims to show the positive and negative indirect effects of COVID-19 on the
environment, particularly in the most affected countries such as China, USA, Italy, and Spain …

COVID-19 lockdowns cause global air pollution declines

ZS Venter, K Aunan, S Chowdhury… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The lockdown response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused an
unprecedented reduction in global economic and transport activity. We test the hypothesis …

Regional and global contributions of air pollution to risk of death from COVID-19

A Pozzer, F Dominici, A Haines, C Witt… - Cardiovascular …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Aims The risk of mortality from the coronavirus disease that emerged in 2019 (COVID-19) is
increased by comorbidity from cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. Air pollution also …

Excess mortality: the gold standard in measuring the impact of COVID-19 worldwide?

T Beaney, JM Clarke, V Jain… - Journal of the Royal …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The unprecedented speed and scale of spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic has forced
policymakers and clinicians to operate with limited evidence for the relative success of …

Social consequences of mass quarantine during epidemics: a systematic review with implications for the COVID-19 response

IYH Chu, P Alam, HJ Larson, L Lin - Journal of travel medicine, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Four billion people worldwide have experienced coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
confinement. Such unprecedented extent of mobility restriction to curb the COVID-19 …